How do people who are BLIND, DEAF and MUTE could learn language?

    Base on the movie remake about the life story of Helen Keller, she learned how to read with a small help of "braille system", which is a method widely used by blind people to read and write. She also learned through card boards which are cut out to make letters where she can also spell out some words that she can use through communicating. In speaking, Ms. Sarah Fuller's technique in teaching Helen in spelling is quite impressive and effective. She let Helen touch her lips, tongue and throat for her to feel her mouths vibrations in pronouncing the words. Through that she can speak but it takes years for a disable person to master all those things. At the start of the movie just like what Anne Suvillan said, "She must learn language for her to communicate." I thought the movie really helped give me insight to some of the hardships deaf/blind people have to face in their daily life,and in trying to learn. Helen throws temper tantrums and acts out because she is so frustrated with her situation. Before this movie, I had never given much thought to how difficult it might be to understand a concept as simple as things have names.


       I would have liked to see more on Helen Keller after she learns to communicate. I know from reading about her that she went to do a number of great things. She became a prolific writer and activist, and many other pioneering things in the hearing as well as the deaf culture. I felt the movie ended very abruptly once she understood the concept that things have names, and I would have liked to see a little more of how she was taught to communicative and understand words.

     

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Analysis: Miracle Worker (The Story of Helen Keller)

   Imagine a life without being able to see, hear and communicate to others, that is the condition of Helen Keller. She experienced six years of darkness. Anne Sullivan, was assigned to be her teacher. She will teach her how to cope up with her sickness. She had "doll" as her first word. She has a father, Arthur H. Keller, who wants her to be sent to an asylum but her mother, Kate Keller, just want Helen to be with her.
   Helen Keller was described by her uncle as blind, deaf and dumb child. When Anne came to their place, she immediately taught her language using a doll that Helen found on her trunk. She communicate to everyone using Manual Alphabet that her teacher taught her. Then, her teacher made letters out of card boards for Helen to read using her fingers. She just touch them then later on got familiarized with them. She enjoys Reading Game. But, later on she wants to learn how to speak through her mouth just like what her mother, father and teacher does. She also learned how to read through "braille". She became a student of Perkin's School of Blind under Sarah Fuller. How did Helen Keller learned how to speak? Ms. Fuller began by placing Helen's hand on her face and in her mouth, lightly at first. This allowed Helen to feel the position of Fuller's tongue and lips when she made a sound. She then shaped Helen's own mouth for making basic vowel sounds. She took Helen's hand and placed it on her throat so that Helen could feel the vibrations. For the next hour, the two focused on making the sounds of language. Helen would gently touch Fuller's face, mouth, tongue, and throat. Helen's hands also probed her own mouth and neck, as she tried to copy what Ms. Fuller was doing. First, she learned to form sounds. With time, she uttered her first sentence: "It is too warm."

    Helen Keller suffered first small numbers of strokes but was later on recovered. When she went home, her caretaker called her doctor immediately. Then, her doctor soon diagnosed her first stroke. She also developed diabetes, which gave her difficulty to travel or even walk. Helen's abilities later on impaired also her interest in communicating in the outside world diminished and her only past time is to read her interesting books.

    In relation to us who are capable of speaking, seeing and hearing. We should appreciate our abilities and should do or use it in a proper way. Just like in speaking, Saying "foul words" means that we are not appreciating our ability to talk instead we are abusing it. We are also lucky that we can see because it is really hard to live in a dark world just like Helen. We should listen and not just hear. Listening is different from hearing. Hearing is merely the ability of ear to sense sounds around one, but, listening is more of conscious effort to interpret the sounds, requiring concentration of mind.


   We should appreciate what we have especially our abilities because it is a blessing and not everyone is blessed with that because we still have people that are incapable or has disabilities.

Paragraph: Alvin and the Chipmunks - The Single Ladies

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     The song tells about the unsuccessful relationship of the singer with her former lover. They ended their relationship and she encountered three tearful year over her former boyfriend. So, she went out to the club to get her mind off and move on. A guy went over to her, they were dancing and having a good time when her ex-boyfriend walks in and sees her. The former boyfriend seems jealous but for the singer, he has no right to get jealous anymore because everything between them are already over. If only the Ex-boyfriend really loves her, he would "put a ring on it" or propose a marriage. The singer wants a man who could be with her for the rest of her life and could give her a real love. 

My Ambiguous Sentences

1. She has appointed her assistant manager.
        a. She has appointed another woman to be her assistant manager.
        b. She has appointed her own assistant manager (maybe to another position).


2. My solicitor gives the poorest free advice.
        a. My solicitor gives free advice to the poorest people.
        b. My solicitor gives free advice that is the worst (poorest) possible.


3. I'll call you my secretary.
        a. I will say that you are my secretary
        b. I will call my secretary for you.


4. They are baking potatoes.
        a. They are potatoes for baking.
        b. They have put potatoes in the oven for baking.

myfirstsemester

             First day of school, running as fast as we could. Me and my best friend was late for our very first subject at the very first day. It was really embarrassing because as we enter the room everyone was silent and everyone was staring at us, but as the times and days went on, we coped up with it. We meet new people who are really nice and approachable. I realized that college life wasn't that harsh as I thought it was. But of course, it's not that easy compared to high school.

         At the first month of class, still, I rarely know my classmates and I am not good in making friends for I was too shy to introduce myself. Luckily, I have my best friend who is really good at it. She introduce me to some new persons she meet in our class. They were: Gina Mae Omila, Garel April Bulair, Dollie Joyce Sarcino, Key Marie Sescon, Queeny Mae Gabino and Yoshabeth Ragudo. We never had a thought that we could make a really good company. They were great friends, I share my happiness and heartaches to them. We help each other when we have a hard time coping up with our subjects. I learned a lot about my course. All the things that I learned in my high school are also discussed in college so everything is worth learning and now that I understand the past lessons, my confusions are now clarified.